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The Yuma Episode

It's May 24th. There's no new Arizona Daily Wildcat to mock, so it’s taken way more than 24 hours to cure my writer's block. Time for an Arizona Podcat news update.The No Child Left Behind Act's nutritional guidelines for K-12 public schools take effect on July 1st in an attempt to combat child obesity. Lawmakers such as Ted Kennedy, Jerrold Nadler, Dennis Hastert, and Jim Kolbe felt that state legislatures, individual school districts, and parents "don't have enough experience with obesity" to deal with the crisis.

Meanwhile, the law also bans tortillas from being served for fear that food fights might offend Hispanics.An Allstate Insurance study reports that Tucson is a relatively safe city for driving. Allstate released the report to the media from its Yuma office yesterday because of its cool weather.In other Yuma news, a local theater will be hosting the premiere of the film "Surf School." "We figured this was the perfect place", one producer noted, "Yuma’s got so much sand, it's pretty much one big beach." The premiere goes in parallel with multiple baseless claims that the region is "paradise", including but not limited to Paradise Pools, Paradise Cove, Paradise Casino, and a certain characterization found in the Chicago Tribune: "smuggler’s paradise."Today's theme song is "In the Hollow" by Derek K. Miller.

And finally, the Arizona Board of Regents has given its stamp of approval to the University of Arizona to install more wireless Internet access in high-traffic areas of campus. Officials noted, “Finally, students will have something more to do than sudoku, crossword puzzles, and Hex Talk during lectures. Now, they can use AOL Instant Messenger, MySpace, and Facebook.” Professors are elated that the proposal will probably reduce verbal talking in class. One professor noted “When this is all done, we’ll have reached a new low.”Today's theme song is Fisher: Chicago as recorded by Eric Prancer conducted by Fred Lewis and performed by the Bensenville/Wood Dale Concert Band. Per their (ambiguous) request of noncommercial use, this episode falls under the Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 license available at Creative Commons.

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Objurgate Opine with O'Hara

Now that I have a Skype account, I now have the ability to record audio interviews over the Internet. Thus, if you'd like to be interviewed for The Arizona Podcat, please shoot me an email and we'll schedule a time. Please note that because finals are coming up, my availability may be extremely limited. Moreover, all interviews would become my property and licensed under the same Creative Commons license as both the Factor and the Podcat.

Moreover, if you are a semi-outsider (or perhaps otherwise) and would like to help out with the interviewing, that works, too. The more people we have, the more interesting it becomes.

Meanwhile, a man in Yuma has been ordered to spend 90 days in jail and repay more than $300,000, in monthly $300 installments, after having stolen it from collection plates at a local Roman Catholic church. Meanwhile, Arizona Lottery officials have taken notice and created the “one million-dollar lotto”, whose winner gets one dollar every year for a million years. One official noted, “Since lottery players are so mathematically inept, I don’t know how we didn’t think of this in the first place!”